POLYARTERITIS NODOSA

  • necrotizing vasculitis.
      • Others
        • Churg-Strauss syndrome,
        • microscopic PAN,
        • Kawasaki disease,
        • rheumatoid vasculitis,
        • Wegener granulomatosis, and
        • hypersensitivity vasculitis
  • medium or small caliber arteries – occasionally small veins
  • Cause
      • M:F .2:1
      • 5th?7th decades.
        • immune complex deposition
          • hepatitis B virus HIV
  • necrosis and destruction of the walls of vessels.
      • kidneys70-80%
      • heart spleen lung – rare
  • diagnosis
      • clinical symptoms and laboratory data,
      • biopsy
      • angiogram provides the proof in some cases.
        • microaneurysms in medium or small arteries.
        • stenosis
        • occlusion

Links and References

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